DivX
\di.viks\
The verdict
“DivX” is uncommon French (frequency #98,974 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,974
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom déposé des codecs MPEG4 et H.264/MPEG-4 AVC ; ces codecs autorisent une compression très efficace des clips vidéo sans perte importante de qualité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-divx · DivX · French
DivX · rank #98,974 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,974
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH distillateur
Nearest frequency peer: distillateur (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « DivX »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- diplodocus
diplodocus
1,030 corpus weight
- directionne…
directionnelles
1,029 corpus weight
- distillateur
distillateur
1,028 corpus weight
- DivX
DivX
1,027 corpus weight
- doch
doch
1,025 corpus weight
- dolet
dolet
1,023 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « DivX » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | DivX |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \di.viks\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #98,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « DivX » en français
Rare enough to double-check
DivX is uncommon French at frequency #98,974 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \di.viks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for DivX, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is DivX, spelled D-I-V-X.
Definition
- 1Nom déposé des codecs MPEG4 et H.264/MPEG-4 AVC ; ces codecs autorisent une compression très efficace des clips vidéo sans perte importante de qualité.
- 2Film encodé à partir d’un DVD ou d’un blu-ray.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how DivX appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai plusieurs centaines de divx sur mon disque dur.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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